Territorial Disputes:
International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled on the
delimitation of "bolsones" (disputed areas) along the El
Salvador-Honduras border in 1992 with final settlement
by the parties in 2006 after an Organization of American
States survey and a further ICJ ruling in 2003; the 1992
ICJ ruling advised a tripartite resolution to a maritime
boundary in the Gulf of Fonseca with consideration of
Honduran access to the Pacific; El Salvador continues to
claim tiny Conejo Island, not mentioned in the ICJ
ruling, off Honduras in the Gulf of Fonseca; Honduras
claims the Belizean-administered Sapodilla Cays off the
coast of Belize in its constitution, but agreed to a
joint ecological park around the cays should Guatemala
consent to a maritime corridor in the Caribbean under
the OAS-sponsored 2002 Belize-Guatemala Differendum;
Honduras may have asserted claims over Serranilla Bank
and Bajo
Nuevo Bank.